Search Details

Word: ak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...late to rephrase the question; the parade has begun. Tens of thousands of volunteers - and a few companies of the regular Army - march by to the energetic prompting of a 12-piece brass band. Making the greatest early impression: a cohort of masked women in black, armed with AK-47s. Not far behind, but at the opposite end of the impressiveness scale, are a rabble of local Ba?ath workers, many of them sporting pot bellies and making little effort to stay in step. On the public address system, a man with a deep voice exhorts the soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Saddam's Hometown | 2/8/2003 | See Source »

...paramilitary officers, unexpectedly found himself peering out the open window of a Soviet-made Mi-17 helicopter that day as it soared over the Anjuman Pass and into the Panjshir Valley, northeast of Kabul. Just ahead on the ground, John spotted a patrol of bearded men in turbans toting AK-47 rifles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA's Secret Army: The CIA's Secret Army | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...Mekong Full Moon Party, this year's surprise Thai hit film about the Naga fireballs, a hapless television journalist is desperate to expose the phenomenon as a hoax. A month after the movie's October release, Thai television station ITV screened a documentary claiming that the fireballs were merely AK-47 tracer rounds fired by bored Lao soldiers on the opposite bank of the river. Mere coincidence? Or are strange, dark forces at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

...statutes for reciting a poem that contained the lines: "Our minarets are our bayonets, our believers are our soldiers." He served four months in jail and was banned from public office for life. Yet last week the clean-cut populist was back. His pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AK) drubbed Turkey's secular old guard in the general election, amassing nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament - albeit with only one-third of the popular vote. With only one other grouping, the old-line Republican People's Party (CHP), making it into parliament, the AK will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victorious — and Banned | 11/10/2002 | See Source »

...Trail In FL, Dubya to the Rescue SD's Big Senate Race Gray Davis Leads By Default PA's Blue Dog Hangs Tough NY's Bleeding-Heart Republican Paul Wellstone: 1944-2002 Iowa: Dialing for Dollars AZ Governor: Being Themselves IN House: By Foot and Humvee What Kennedy Mystique? AK Senate: The Family Business CT House: Goliath vs. Goliath More Stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Bush Manage his Triumph? | 11/6/2002 | See Source »

Previous | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | Next